This one’s good for different reasons. It’s warmer, more realist, and the little lines on his shirt feel playful. If you pick this one up again the warmth and playfulness are great themes to expound on.

Omg I love the brushwork 😍

I think the eyes make him look vampiric because of the slightly yellow tone and slightly upturned lower eyelids…though the crimson tinges in his hair and deep contrast in his outfit might be part of it 😂 The face shadows too

Soundtrack includes chiptune renditions of songs by bands such as Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.

Yeah the weapon-switching is a bit awkward but the racing combined with the combat make it absolutely beautiful. Doing it all at ridiculous speeds makes it that much more thrilling. There’s few video games that aren’t VR that can make you sweat but that’s absolutely one of them.

I’m imagining the cigarette not even lit, it’s just his solidarity cig.

It’s fitting that it takes the shape of a butt plug

Oooh let’s increase camber and decrease caster. Maybe decrease bump stiffness but add a touch of rebound.

It’s people like yourself that make the world such a beautiful place 🥲

If motorcycles are your jam then there’s Road Redemption on Steam. It’s like Mario Kart but much more brutal, with guns, swords (and decapitations), and blunt weapons (to knock helmets off to pave way for decapitations).

Edit: forgot to mention, the game display artwork shows a cop about to get nailed with a nailbat. Also I think you get extra points for getting cops. Just saying.

I have to imagine it has to do with identification. Unless you’re at the top of the social order, you’re going to identify with the “underdog” to some extent, but few will identify with the powerful. Even at the higher echelons, there’s still plenty of people with more power, which can lead one to the false assumption of one’s own downtrodden status: hence the difficulty of many white-presenting people to recognize their own privilege, even when it becomes increasingly obvious when bolstered by wealth.

Huh. Well now I have to do what I always do when confused by confounding situations: Go do some reading. It’s hard for me to conceptualize what goes into someone’s head to produce such a dissonant view, but it takes all types I guess. Maybe it’s incomplete propagandization? Like genetic co-dominance but applied to a worldview.

These sound like fascinating people you’ve encountered. That’s not disbelief, mind, but it’s interesting how they could come to the belief that Cuba is good but Maduro is bad. It seems like they have a lot of Cognitive Dissonance to contend with. If this is their belief system then it would be logical to assume that they’re 100% in support of Venezuela now that their only obstacle to support is in a NY jail.

Were there really ever? “Anti-tankiism” was never really a tenable position, as it required ignoring the good things communist governments did and inflating, or removing from historical context and comparison with worse capitalist actions, any negative actions.

Jail would be the absolute minimum necessary

Good previously studied creative writing at Old Dominion University, where in 2020 she won the university’s Academy of American Poets Prize for her poem “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs”.[16][17]

From her Wikipedia page

I think quite a lot of statesians would like to dissect some mature pigs right about now.